Jewelry box



`Patented Sept. 9, 193() UNITED ISTATES PATENT OFFICE HAR-RY J. FARRINGTON, OF NEWTON, MASSAOH'USETTS, ASSIGNOB. 'IO FAR-RINGTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, iMIASSAGHU'SETTS,l A CORPORATION 0F MASSACHUSETTS JEWELRY BOX Application led January 16, 1929. Serial No. 332,756.

This invention relates to boxes, cases and containers, particularly to jewelry boxes for housing and displaying watches, bracelets and other articles of jewelry, and more par 6 ticularly to boxes formed of pressed metal and covered with leather, fabric or other sheet material. Y

The principal objects of the invention-are to provide a construction which is simple and economical in manufacture, which facilitates the application of the covering of sheet material with the raw edges concealed, which minimizes Wear on the sheet material at the edges of the box, particularly where the edges of the top and bottom impact againstA each other when snapped together with a spring-actw ated hinge, which presents the attractive ap-n pearance of more costly boxes formed of wood hollowed out and covered over, while affording much greater strength and durability, and which is generally superior, both in utility and appearance, to boxes of the aforesaid class as heretofore constructed.

According to this invention the end of the box (top or bottom) comprises a piece of sheet metal and interlocked with the end is a rim piece of sheet metal presenting around the mouth of the box a border surface which is several times as wide as the thickness of the sheet metal forming the end and which is preferably parallel with the plane of the mouth of the box, that is, the horizontal plane defined by the upper edge of the bottom (or the lower edge of the top). The rim preferably extends from th'e outer surfaces of the sides of the box inwardly beyond the inner surfaces of the sides, thereby to present the aforesaid border which is wider than the thickness of the sheet metal forming the sides and, as hereinafter described, the rim may also be bent over to extend along said outer surfaces.

For the purpose of illustrating the genus of the invention a concrete embodiment is shown in lthe accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the box;

Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the parts constituting the cover in finished condicomprises bottom and top portions hinged together at 1. Asillustrating the factthat each of these portions may have any one of a greatvariety of shapes, the top and bottom are shown as having different shapes but it will of course bev understood that they may if desired be formed identically. For the purpose of simplifying the drawings the usual pad, lining, etc. ordinarily provided in jewelry boxes have been omitted in the figures.

` As shown in Fig. 2 the top is formed of two pieces of sheet metal 3 and 4 respectively covered with sheets 5 and 6'o f leather, fabric or other sheet material. The piece 3 is cupped so that the sides blend continuously into the central portion of the top. The covering sheet 5 is applied over the outer surface of theexterior part 3 and is folded inwardly over the edge 7 at the mouth of the cover. The

ner face of the covered flange @substantially abutting the outer surfaces of the sides of the exterior part 3. While the covering-6 on the rim 4 may be folded over both flanges 8 and 9' it is ordinarily suflicient merely to fold it over the outer flange inasmuch as the inner edge is concealed by the lining (not shown) of the cover. After the parts 3 and 4 are intertitted with the edge 7 seated in the channel of the rim 4 the outside flange 8 of the rim is bent inwardly to interlock the parts, as shown in Fig. 3.

While the bottom may be constructed in the same manner as the top it is shown in Fig. 3 as composed of an exterior part 10 having vertical sides 11 (instead of Haring 55 14 to constitute a Z-shaped cross-section. I

The sheet coverings for the exterior and interior parts 10 and 12` are shown at 15 and 16. The flange 14 of rim 12 constitutes the tom at suitable intervals around the flange 13 and interengaging over this flange, Obviously the rim on either the bottom or top might be interlocked in either or both of these ways illustrated in relation to the bottom and cover respectively.

From the foregoing it will be evident that the wide border portions of the two rims abut against each other wehenthe cover is closed thereby affording a wide seating area. As

la result of the wide border surfaces there is no tendency to cutthe covering material when the cover is snapped into the closed position and the surfaces will present a fresh and unmarred appearance much longer than in the case of prior constructions where the edges of the sheet metal top and bottom tend to cut through the covering material. Even in the case of uncovered boxes this construe-- tion has the advantage that the broad surfaces do not scratch or mar each other as in the case of raw or narrow edges even though the edges be rolled or beaded.

Moreover the wide surfaces enhance the appearance of the box when opened inasmuch as they present a wide border around the jewelry pad; and this border may have a contrasting color by covering the rim or interior part with material colored differently from that of the covering material on the exterior part of the box.

It will also be evident that the raw edges of the covering sheets for both the exterior and interior parts are concealed and held against accidental tearing or peeling by being confined between the two parts. And by crimping the rim over the exterior part as shown at 8, the `joint between the parts is rendered tight and inconspicuous.

I claim:

1. A jewelry box comprising asheet of metal forming one end of the box and a rim of sheet metal interlocked with said end, the rim presenting around the mouth of the box, a border surface which is several times as wide as the thickness of the sheet metal forming said end, the rim being disposed substantially wholly on one side of the plane of said surface.

2. A jewelry box comprising a sheet of metal forming one end of the box and a rim of sheet metal interlocked with said end, the rim presenting a border surface which is approximately parallel with the plane of the mouth of the box and which is several times as wide as Ithe thickness of the sheet metal forming said end.

3. A jewelry box comprising an end, sides, and a rim presentin a border surface around the mouth of the ox, all formed of sheet material and fast together, the rim extending from the outer surfaces of the sides, approximately parallel with the plane of the mouth of the box, inwardly beyond the inner surfaces of said sides, thereby to present a border wider than the thickness of the sheet material forming said sides.

4. A jewelry box comprising' an exterior sheet metal part having an edge presented transversely to the plane of the mouth of the box and an interior sheet metal part having a marginal portion extending outwardly along said plane to the outer periphery ofv said edge.

5. A jewelry box comprisinor an exterior sheet metal part having an edge presented transversely to the plane of the mouth of the box and an interior sheet metal part having a marginal portion extending outwardly along said plane to the outer periphery of said edge and'thence along the outer surface of said exterior part.

6. A jewelry box comprising a sheet-metal body portion having a turned edge, and a sheet-metal rim portion presenting a border surface around the mouth of the box wider than the thickness of the sheet metal, the rim being crimped over said turned edge to interlock said portions together.

7. A jewelry box comprising a sheet-metal bodyportion having a turned edge, and a sheet-metal rim portion presenting a border surface around the mouth of the box wider than the thickness of the sheet metal, the outer edge of the rim being crimped over said turned edge to interlock said portions together and the inner edge of `the rim being free.

8. A jewelry box comprising a sheet of metal forming one end of the box and a rim of sheet metal interlocked with said end, the rim presenting, around the mouth of the box, a border surface which is several times as wide as the thickness of the sheet metal forming said end, one of said sheet metal arts being covered with a finishing sheet having a margin folded between the two parts.

9. A jewelry box comprising a sheet of lnetal forming one end of the box and a rim of sheet meta-l interlocked with said end, the rim presenting a border surface which is approximately parallel with the plane of the mouth of the box and which is several times as wide as the thickness of the sheet metal forming said end, said sheet metal end being covered with a finishing sheet extending under said rim. f y

10. A jewelry box comprising an end7 sides, and a rim presenting a border surface around from the outer surfaces of the sides, approxi-4 mately parallel with the planeof the mouth of the box, inwardly beyond the inner surfaces of said sides, thereby to present a border wider than the thickness of the sheett material forming said sides, said rim being covered with a finishing sheet folded over an edge of the rimand thence extending between the rim and sides.

11. A jewelry box comprising an exterior sheet metal part having an edge presented transversely to the plane of the mouth of the box and an interior sheet metalI part having "a marginal portion' extending outwardly along said plane to the outer periphery of said edge, each of said parts being covered with finishing material extending between the parts.

12. A jewelry box comprising an exterior sheet metal part having an edge presented transversely to the plane of the mouth ofthe box and aninterior sheet metal part having a marginal portion extending outwardly along said plane to the outer periphery of said edge and thence alon the outer surface of said exterior part, sai interior part being covered with sheet finishing material folded over the outer edge thereof and thence extending between the parts.,`

13.. A jewelry box comprising a sheet-metal body. portion having a turned edge, and a sheet-metal rim portion presentili a border surface around the mouthof the than the thickness ofthe sheet metal, the rim being crimped over said turned edge to inter lock said portions together, said body portion being covered on the outside with a iinishing sheet folded inwardly over saidv edge under said nim portion andthe rim portion having a covering sheet folded inwardly over j its outer ed e and thence extending between the two portions.

14. A jewelry box comprising a sheet-metal body portion having a turned edge, "and a sheet-metal rim portion presenting a border surface around the mouth A.of the box wider than the thickness ofl the sheet metal, the outer edge of the rim bein said turned .edge to interloc said portions together and the inner edge of the rim being free, and the rim being covered with sheet material folded under said outer edge between the two portions. v

15. A jewelry box comprising a ,sheet of metal forming lone end of the box and a rim` of sheet metal interlocked with said end, the

rim presenting, around the mouth of the box,

a border surface which isseveral times as Wide as the thickness of the sheet metal form- I ing said end, both edges of the rim being disposed on the same side of the .plane of said surface.

16. A jewelry box comprising a cupped ox widerl crimped over body and a rim presenting a border surface around the mouth of the body, all formedthickness of the sheet material forming said sides... f

17. A jewelry box comprising an exterior .sheet metal part having an edge presented transversely to the plane of the mouth of the box and an interior sheet metal part having a portion extending outwardly along said plane to the eriphery of said edge and a portion extending transversely of said plane from said plane toward said relation to said edge.

18. .A Ajewelry box comprising top and bottom parts, one of the parts comprising a cupped sheet of material having an outwardlyfiiaring portion adjacent its mouth, and a rim of sheet material havinv a portion extending inwardly from the edge of said part approximately in the planeof said mouth and another portion extending from the inner-periphery ofsaid ortion of the rim substantially to said larmg portion of the part. v 1 1 19. A jewelry box comprising top and bottom parts, one= of the. parts comprising a cupped-sheet of material, a rim of sheet material extending inwardly from the edge of said part approximately in the plane of said mouth and thence extending transversely of said plane to the interior of said part, and

part in spaced means'inside said part for interlocking it 

